Abosede Abubakre

PhD student
Name: Abosede Abubakre
Location: C1 Lab 444 Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Contact Details:
Tel: +27 (0)11 559 4737

Email: abosedea@uj.ac.za

About Abosede Abubakre

Project title

Magnetostratigraphy and sedimentology of the southern Karoo Basin

Supervisor

Prof. M.O. de Kock

Project outline

• Providing a detailed sedimentological characterisation of the Permian rocks and investigating the sedimentary environments in which the potential Karoo shale gas source rocks formed
• Using core logging technologies to determine reservoir architecture and facies distribution
• Using paleomagnetic techniques as a tool for precise correlation of time horizons within the Karoo Permian successions
• Investigating the changes in sediment accumulation rates in the southern Karoo Basin
• Establishing a magnetostratigraphic framework for the southern Karoo Basin

Research interests

Magnetostratigraphy, Rock magnetism, Sedimentology, Stratigraphy, Petroleum Geology and Sequence Stratigraphy.